10 Star Trek Episodes They Should Have Made (It's Never Too Late)
1. Yesterday's Daughter
Speaking of time travel conundrums...
When Tasha Yar from an alternate universe went back in time with the Enterprise-C to fight a battle that was integral to restoring the timeline, it spawned a very unexpected sequel.
With the ill-fated Enterprise-C destroyed, Yar and a handful of survivors were captured by the Romulans. They were all to be executed following their interrogation, but a general became enamoured with Yar and offered her a nauseating deal. Become his consort, and the lives of the other survivors would be spared.
The courageous and duty-bound officer agreed, and a year later, she gave birth to a little girl. Sela. A child that would cry out for help when her mother tried to escape with her. A child that would become as fierce and cunning as any Romulan of the Star Empire.
And we learn all of this from a few lines of dialogue in the superb two-parter Redemption.
But this backstory is as delicious a drama as any Romulan epic shown on screen. Why is it little more than a footnote in another story? Well, we think it's time this oversight was put right.
Cards on the table, we're not really talking about just one episode here. Let's go all out and demand a limited mini-series, say...six episodes. Opening with that final battle of the Enterprise-C we've heard so much about, it would chart the fate of Yar and the rise of Sela. Although, can we at least flirt with the idea that Yar managed to escape somehow, please?
What would follow is a tale swathed in Romulan political intrigue, revealing the perilous past of the half-Romulan woman who claimed everything human about her died with her mother. Perhaps she was manipulated to turn against Yar and humanity, or maybe she saw it as her only path to survival...until she no longer remembered feeling any other way.
Full of hardcore Romulan scheming, twists and turns, and just the right amount of scandal, the story could take us to the eve of Redemption, to the moment a fully formed Sela finally steps out of the shadows.
Now, you have to admit that doesn't sound half bad.